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we have built an economy that is .he world's envy that is an important part of the obama legacy. a it has proven to be voter-less recovery. to of his final acts was urge lawmakers to fight off the republican attempts to dismantle obamacare and the rest of his domestic legacy. >> look out for the american people. looking at obama's legacy on foreign policy. >> as the transfer of power nears, meryl streep, in accepting lifetime achievement awards, she took on donald trump for mocking a disabled reporter. he called her the most overrated actress in hollywood. horrified theore van the liberal bastion of hollywood and nobody commands more respect than meryl streep. respect invites disrespect. violence incites violence. when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. if we kick them all out, there'll be nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, hich are not "the arts." >> donald trump responded that meryl streep is one of the most overrated actresses in hollywood, calling her a flunky who lost a big. claire was honored for a starring role in which she pla
we have built an economy that is .he world's envy that is an important part of the obama legacy. a it has proven to be voter-less recovery. to of his final acts was urge lawmakers to fight off the republican attempts to dismantle obamacare and the rest of his domestic legacy. >> look out for the american people. looking at obama's legacy on foreign policy. >> as the transfer of power nears, meryl streep, in accepting lifetime achievement awards, she took on donald trump for mocking...
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obama called on the world to group and hethe warned i.s. fighters to leave the battlefield while they can. here is our middle east editor jeremy bowen. >> the president's >> used to say that he had relegated america to the back seat. but now he is taking the lead. in the company, of his wife michelle, came, toermines to -- determined -- he reinserted and redefined america's leading role. told the obama assembled leaders and diplomats the future of humanity depended calledng against what he religiously motivated fanatics. especially the islamic state. >> no god condones this hair -- this terror. no grievance justifies these actions. there can be no reasoning, known negotiation with this brand of -- no negotiation with this brand of evil. the only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. the united states of america will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death. >> president obama did not touch on his planned to create an army of syrian rebels to beat it islamic state on the ground. is youtube v
obama called on the world to group and hethe warned i.s. fighters to leave the battlefield while they can. here is our middle east editor jeremy bowen. >> the president's >> used to say that he had relegated america to the back seat. but now he is taking the lead. in the company, of his wife michelle, came, toermines to -- determined -- he reinserted and redefined america's leading role. told the obama assembled leaders and diplomats the future of humanity depended calledng against...
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what he brought into the world. his rightful place, barack obama ran as an antidote to clinton. that is too much triangulation, to incremental. i'm going to be post partisan and transcendent and visionary. now he is not running as an antidote, he is running as the inheritor. i am the one to carry the clinton creek forward. he gets back and he also gets with that, the restoration. that can't help but help hillary clinton if she decides to run in 2016 which everyone around her think she is going to do. at one me to do obama? -- want me to do obama? he gets the most widely respected and almost neutral economic orbiter, the highest approval rating, 69% who is taken and associated with this period of peace. he can talk owls down from the trees. the best spokesman in the history of the world. and to make his case for working-class and middle-class voters. they found it hard reach as a candidate in 2008 and as president. he gets a huge boost toward his reelection. he gets a big boost in what will be a very tight race. tavis: what does it say about our politics that the first african am
what he brought into the world. his rightful place, barack obama ran as an antidote to clinton. that is too much triangulation, to incremental. i'm going to be post partisan and transcendent and visionary. now he is not running as an antidote, he is running as the inheritor. i am the one to carry the clinton creek forward. he gets back and he also gets with that, the restoration. that can't help but help hillary clinton if she decides to run in 2016 which everyone around her think she is going...
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this is "bbc world news america. barack obama urges the world to stay angry over the climate. he says climate change is bigger than politics. >> there is one thing that sh transcend our day to day politics and normal geopolitics and that is climate change. laura: the world food program warns and afghanistan millions could start. >> the winter months are coming. it's going to be hell on earth. laura: barbed wire, border tensions. polish troops use pepper spray to keep migrants out as diplomatic tensions flare. [applause] plus, joyful scenes at america's airports. international travelers can enter the u.s. as pandemic restrictions are lifted after 20 long months. ♪ welcome. we begin tonight at the cop26 where barack obama said the world is nowhere near it needs to be. it's the start of the second week of the climate meeting. he scolded china and russia's leaders for not being there in person. our editor reports. reporter: deeper floods. bigger fires. high temperatures. climate change is being felt around the world, so the talks are not just about the future but coping with a h
this is "bbc world news america. barack obama urges the world to stay angry over the climate. he says climate change is bigger than politics. >> there is one thing that sh transcend our day to day politics and normal geopolitics and that is climate change. laura: the world food program warns and afghanistan millions could start. >> the winter months are coming. it's going to be hell on earth. laura: barbed wire, border tensions. polish troops use pepper spray to keep migrants...
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he wants to put together a taffing force which in the old obama world would have been where you put things into the filing cabinet, right? but he wants to put together a task force of experts he's been talking to, tech and c.e.o.'s. >> i legal week we've been here before. >> and worked with congress on pending legislation. and democrats and republicans have come together on legislative efforts. gwen: is your sense, doyle, that this is really -- this really is, no matter how much he says, this all in the works before, edward snowden was at least a catalyst for it? >> there's no question that edward snowden was a catalyst. there was a little bit of stuff that the administration was doing. yes, they were reviewing their procedures. yes, they tell us that they have tightened up some procedures. but here's what hadn't happened until snowden came along. congress wasn't paying any attention. you had ron wyden in the senate and a few others saying hey, folks, there's something here you should be worried about but there was no pressure to move on any of this. so there's no question that this packag
he wants to put together a taffing force which in the old obama world would have been where you put things into the filing cabinet, right? but he wants to put together a task force of experts he's been talking to, tech and c.e.o.'s. >> i legal week we've been here before. >> and worked with congress on pending legislation. and democrats and republicans have come together on legislative efforts. gwen: is your sense, doyle, that this is really -- this really is, no matter how much he...
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you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, barack obama is about to become the first sitting u.s. president to visit hiroshima. we are there to gauge reaction to the historic visit. there have been clashes in paris between right police and protesters after widespread demonstrations against controversial labour reforms. lucy williamson reports from le havre. lucy: centuries ago, they marched for liberty, equality. today, it was for overtime wages and the 35-hour week. unions here fear the government is trying to boost the economy at the expense of workers' rights. the government says it is simply trying to create more jobs for young people. many in france accept the need for a more flexible economy, but , among the unions, there is a sense of anger and betrayal that a socialist government could be the one to do it. just hours after the government said it would consider modifications to its labour reforms, this is the response of the unions -- more demonstrations, more strikes, more disruption
you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, barack obama is about to become the first sitting u.s. president to visit hiroshima. we are there to gauge reaction to the historic visit. there have been clashes in paris between right police and protesters after widespread demonstrations against controversial labour reforms. lucy williamson reports from le havre. lucy: centuries ago, they marched for liberty, equality. today, it was for overtime wages and...
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president barack obama is in indonesia, the world's largest moslem nation, in an effort to improve the u.s. reputation in them muslim world. there is deep resentment towards the united states. 17 months ago, president obama made a speech in cairo aimed at ernest and sustained rebuilding of understanding with muslims worldwide. today, he said that there is a long way to go. on >> back in indonesia, his old home. for the first time as american president. he had come here twice before. today, barack obama finally arrived in jakarta. he met his indonesian counterpart to launch a new partnership between the two countries. >> expanding partnerships between our people, deepening political and security cooperation are the pillars of our new partnership which is do so much to the good work of my friend, the president. >> his name was on everyone's lips at his old school. they wrote a song on him and were getting ready for him to drop by. >> i knew him as a chevy boy. >> she knew him back then as a neighbor and school friend. >> a lot of people are muslim. maybe people expect that he will do som
president barack obama is in indonesia, the world's largest moslem nation, in an effort to improve the u.s. reputation in them muslim world. there is deep resentment towards the united states. 17 months ago, president obama made a speech in cairo aimed at ernest and sustained rebuilding of understanding with muslims worldwide. today, he said that there is a long way to go. on >> back in indonesia, his old home. for the first time as american president. he had come here twice before....
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>> you know, whether you agree with president obama's world view or not, if you read this article in the atlantic, you'll see that he's trying to reason his way through a set of very complicated challenges to the united states. i don't see anything resembling that kind of mature reasoning process going on in the debate we're having around foreign policy. on the republican side you have people talking about carpet bombing and committing war crimes and reinstituting torture. on the democratic side too, you have one of the two candidates has shown zero interest in actually thinking about foreign policy. i'm obviously talking about bernie sanders. there's no doubt in my mind that president obama does a lot of hard thinking about how to best manage the united states' role in the world. he might reach the wrong conclusions, and we don't know. we don't know yet. we might not know for 5 or 10 or 15 or 20 years. but there is a process in place in his head, where he's dealing with things in non-bumper sticker terms. the problem for obama is that none of his foreign policy ideas can fit on a bu
>> you know, whether you agree with president obama's world view or not, if you read this article in the atlantic, you'll see that he's trying to reason his way through a set of very complicated challenges to the united states. i don't see anything resembling that kind of mature reasoning process going on in the debate we're having around foreign policy. on the republican side you have people talking about carpet bombing and committing war crimes and reinstituting torture. on the...
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let me go to the young barack obama you can chased around the world. did you see this quality. >> question i did. he came out of hawaii, so this's this laid back aspect to it. you didn't see any of the political part of him at all in high school or college compared to bill clinton who was running for office in high school his principal got sick of it. obama was playing pass ket ball and smoking pot. even in playing basketball he thought he was better than he was. he thought he was a starter. he was really the nice guy on the team. that's satisfied got him to the white house. it's an essential part of who he is and it came out of him actually just the opposite of clinton. barack obama spent 10 years of his early life trying to figure himself out. all of the contradiction tion that the world through at him. all of his internal contra did i goes from the time he left hawaii at age 18 until law school at 28. introspective. that period gave him the satisfied to get to the white house and got him in trouble. >> charlie:and also gave him the ability to write
let me go to the young barack obama you can chased around the world. did you see this quality. >> question i did. he came out of hawaii, so this's this laid back aspect to it. you didn't see any of the political part of him at all in high school or college compared to bill clinton who was running for office in high school his principal got sick of it. obama was playing pass ket ball and smoking pot. even in playing basketball he thought he was better than he was. he thought he was a...
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president obama has urged world leaders at the u.n. general assembly to put aside cynicism and support the middle east peace talks. france has ground to a halt for the second time this month. hundreds of thousands of workers are protesting the plans to raise retirement age. it is estimated 40 million people around the world are starving dq high fuel prices. this is made worse by the export ban on meat in russia. we sent jeremy cooke to colorado where weeds is undoubtedly the cash crop. >> -- where wheat is undoubtably the cash crop. >> they are bringing in the bumper crop and as fast as the green is taken from the prairie, -- the grain is taken from the prairie, it is swallowed up. this colorado farmer knows that drought and wildfires in russia have forced up the value of wheat. now he believes he is looking at pay dirt. the irrigators are rolling with a promise of profits ahead. >> be at spring or winter wheat, we have a profit where three months ago we left this field fallow because we did not have the rotations you plant the spring
president obama has urged world leaders at the u.n. general assembly to put aside cynicism and support the middle east peace talks. france has ground to a halt for the second time this month. hundreds of thousands of workers are protesting the plans to raise retirement age. it is estimated 40 million people around the world are starving dq high fuel prices. this is made worse by the export ban on meat in russia. we sent jeremy cooke to colorado where weeds is undoubtedly the cash crop. >>...
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obama renewed a call to work towards ridding the world of nuclear bombs. >> i determined that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent while reducing deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to 1/3. and i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia to move beyond cold war nuclear postures. >> this emphasis is where the president has already had so success. in 2010 president obama signed the new start agreement with then russian president limiting the number of deployed warheads it 1550 by the year 2018. three years later president obama chose berlin, the epicenter of the cold war standoff between east and west to propose further cuts, another 1/3. the russian reaction to mr. obama's proposal was restrained "we cannot negotiate with the united states indefinitely on the reduction and limitation of nuclear weapons bilaterally while a number of other countries continue to expand their nuclear and missile potential. the process of disarmament should become multilateral." so said russia's deputy foreign minister. the princi
obama renewed a call to work towards ridding the world of nuclear bombs. >> i determined that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent while reducing deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to 1/3. and i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia to move beyond cold war nuclear postures. >> this emphasis is where the president has already had so success. in 2010 president obama signed the new start agreement with...
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still to come, president obama says the world is not doing enough to respond to the ebola outbreak. our company -- our country is moving fast to make a difference? preparations for an upcoming civil disobedience movement known as occupy central has begun in hong kong. the campaign is due to start october 1 as china celebrates its national day. houses are expected to take part. the aim is to pressure china into allowing a greater degree of political choice in hong kong. here's the story. ♪ >> one a day when university students are continuing their weeklong strike, protesting against the chinese government's about elections in the city, organizers of the civil disobedience movement called occupy central have called on the public to join them as early as next week. of the preparations, the movement has published a manual outlining their nonviolent as the lawswell under which protesters are likely to be arrested. they are trying to bring a change of clothing and enough food for two to three days. >> as a responsible organizer of an occupation movement, we have theet people understand
still to come, president obama says the world is not doing enough to respond to the ebola outbreak. our company -- our country is moving fast to make a difference? preparations for an upcoming civil disobedience movement known as occupy central has begun in hong kong. the campaign is due to start october 1 as china celebrates its national day. houses are expected to take part. the aim is to pressure china into allowing a greater degree of political choice in hong kong. here's the story. ♪...
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president obama calls on the world to respond. and people across the middle east, there has to be thismon effort to extract cancer so it does not spread. >> the u.s. attorney general arrived in ferguson, missouri in the latest round of trouble. neighbors, modern humans may have lived alongside neanderthals thousands of years longer than originally thought. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. president obama said he was appalled at the beheading of journalist james foley by islamic state militants. the killing was posted online and it is shockingly brutal. foley was abducted while covering the war in syria. correspondent has the story. the images are distressing. >> he was a brother, and a son. james foley worked in iraq and afghanistan. a friend says he was adventurous, kind, and tough. eventually james turned his lens to syria. in 2012, he was kidnapped in the north of the country. last night, militants from the islamic state group released a video showing james foley being beheaded. it is
president obama calls on the world to respond. and people across the middle east, there has to be thismon effort to extract cancer so it does not spread. >> the u.s. attorney general arrived in ferguson, missouri in the latest round of trouble. neighbors, modern humans may have lived alongside neanderthals thousands of years longer than originally thought. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. president obama said he was appalled at the beheading of...
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we are fighting terrorism, not because of syria, on behalf of the world. >> the world does not seem to see it that way. >> when they are hit, then they will see it. >> the humanitarian crisis in syria is pressing on presidents putin and obama. to world is no closer stopping the conventional war that has killed more than 100,000 people. jeremy bowen, bbc news, new york. >> let's get a look at other news now from around the world. the israel prime minister has been urging president obama not to let up on the sanctions against iran. benjamin netanyahu says the measure is crucial for diplomacy to work. he met with the president in the oval office days after president obama had a phone call with the new iranian president. than 130 injured, other killed in a car bombing, most of areas ofeting shia baghdad. insurgents have carried out a series of sectarian attacks, the worst in six years. france has announced its two predecessors will be declared saints in april next year. the unprecedented decision to canonize the two at the same time seems to be an effort to unify catholics around the world
we are fighting terrorism, not because of syria, on behalf of the world. >> the world does not seem to see it that way. >> when they are hit, then they will see it. >> the humanitarian crisis in syria is pressing on presidents putin and obama. to world is no closer stopping the conventional war that has killed more than 100,000 people. jeremy bowen, bbc news, new york. >> let's get a look at other news now from around the world. the israel prime minister has been urging...
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macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama marked world aids day and pledged to provide h.i.v. treatment for millions more in the united states and around the world. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we discuss the impact of the president's plan three decades into a pandemic that's killed 30 million people worldwide. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner gets an update on the situation in burma from william wan of the washington post as secretary of state clinton makes the first top level official visit in more than 50 years. >> brown: "newshour" science correspondent miles o'brienç reports on the growing concernç over the use of full-body scanners at airports across the country. >> it uses x-rays to see right through clothing and identify all kinds of potential threats. critics call it an electronic strip search. >> woodruff: we have a conversation with long-time congressman barney frank of massachusetts as he announces plans to retire at the end of this term. >> brown: and hari sreenivasan talks with global-po
macneil/lehrer productions >> woodruff: president obama marked world aids day and pledged to provide h.i.v. treatment for millions more in the united states and around the world. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we discuss the impact of the president's plan three decades into a pandemic that's killed 30 million people worldwide. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner gets an update on the situation in burma from...
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on this night, in chicago, inside barack obama's private world, the news began to sink in. >> i kept watching obama as he transformed from this young man to the next president of the united states. this was a different man. >> there are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands who have gathered in grant park in chicago. >> ladies and gentlemen, the next first family of the united states of america. >> narrator: only four years earlier, he'd been a state legislator. >> the look on his face to me looked like someone who finally understood the weight of the job that he had just won. >> almost as if the weight of the world had rested on his shoulders. >> the road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep. two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. but america, i have never been more hopeful than i am tonight that we will get there. i promise you, we as a people will get there. god bless you, and may god bless the united states of america. >> narrator: if he had any idea that night how difficult this would be, the next day would prove it. >> so much for
on this night, in chicago, inside barack obama's private world, the news began to sink in. >> i kept watching obama as he transformed from this young man to the next president of the united states. this was a different man. >> there are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands who have gathered in grant park in chicago. >> ladies and gentlemen, the next first family of the united states of america. >> narrator: only four years earlier, he'd been a state legislator....
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tavis: you mentioned the muslim world and the arab world. president obama basically says tthat he wants to be a friend of the middle east. this is on top of him continuing come even to this day, to be referred to by some as a muslim and not a christian. juxtapose what he said what he wanted to do, the goodwill he wanted to foster and crate with what he has on his hands now in the middle east and republicans were making a mockery of him because of that juxtaposition. >> it is a huge challenge for president obama. the reality is that, while he began his presidency with a real intention of trying to do things differently, he did not push hard enough in washington. he had the view apparently that he could bring all sides together and that became the priority. that became primary. working across the aisle, working with republicans, working with a bipartisan basis, etc., etc. what has that -- but that has resulted in, on the example of iran, they can say that he did and iran rejected it. in his first three years, the entire amount of diplomatic fa
tavis: you mentioned the muslim world and the arab world. president obama basically says tthat he wants to be a friend of the middle east. this is on top of him continuing come even to this day, to be referred to by some as a muslim and not a christian. juxtapose what he said what he wanted to do, the goodwill he wanted to foster and crate with what he has on his hands now in the middle east and republicans were making a mockery of him because of that juxtaposition. >> it is a huge...
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>> and now "bbc world news." >> president obama says india should have a face at the top table of world politics. >> the relationship between united states and india may be one of the defining partnerships that the 21st century. >> word of a cholera explosion in haiti as the epidemic rejects -- reaches at port-au- prince. and the end to all long stalemate in forming a government. welcome to "bbc world news." coming up later for you and -- as a hardline cleric encouraging attacks on americans. we have reports from where he is hiding in yemen. and more than its weight in gold. how it could provide a boost to spain's struggling economy. the u.s. president barack obama has said he will support india and in its bid for permanency on the u.n. security council. the pledge has been opposed by pakistan, which has accused the two countries of playing a "power politics." we have this from delhi on the growing ties between the united states and the world's largest democracy. >> as a ceremonial welcome for barack obama at the presidential palace in delhi. at this, he says, is one of the most importa
>> and now "bbc world news." >> president obama says india should have a face at the top table of world politics. >> the relationship between united states and india may be one of the defining partnerships that the 21st century. >> word of a cholera explosion in haiti as the epidemic rejects -- reaches at port-au- prince. and the end to all long stalemate in forming a government. welcome to "bbc world news." coming up later for you and -- as a...
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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: president obama rallied world leaders to join the fight against the islamic state group and cripple what he called their network of death. as a new round of u.s. airstrikes hit syria. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. also ahead this wednesday, archeologists struggle to protect iraq and syria's treasured cultural relics from being destroyed as casualties of war. >> this is ancient mesopotamia, really the cradle of civilization we're talking about. once we lose these archeological sites, we don't know what kind of information and knowledge we're losing forever. >> ifill: plus, india sends a spacecraft to mars on its first try and on a shoestring budget. >> ifill: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful
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president obama warn today that the world much do more to stop the spread of ebola. up to 10,000 people a week in west africa could become infected by the disease by the end of this year if the spread of this virus isn't stopped. the warning comes from the world health organization which now says 70% of the people infected now die from the
president obama warn today that the world much do more to stop the spread of ebola. up to 10,000 people a week in west africa could become infected by the disease by the end of this year if the spread of this virus isn't stopped. the warning comes from the world health organization which now says 70% of the people infected now die from the
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. >> i know you're deeply sourced in bind world and obama world wham do you make of this? the sense among some democrat that is the campaign isn't as nimble or effective as it needs be to meet the moment? >> there's -- i mean, i filed this under the -- it's like a file folder within the democratic bed wetting folder that i keep. but do i -- but -- but that being said, i do think that democrats should be running scared. do i think that it is important that former president obama is talking to the current president and saying that you need take this seriously. but i am also confident that president biden and the bind campaign absolutely are taking the threat of donald trump seriously and taking seriously that their message isn't getting through. i mean, i take david -- you know, everything he just said is right and true. but as he was talking about the things that the president should be doing or the campaigns should be doing, i was thinking back to last fall when the president was doing and the campaign and the administration was doing exactly that. i think that we have to
. >> i know you're deeply sourced in bind world and obama world wham do you make of this? the sense among some democrat that is the campaign isn't as nimble or effective as it needs be to meet the moment? >> there's -- i mean, i filed this under the -- it's like a file folder within the democratic bed wetting folder that i keep. but do i -- but -- but that being said, i do think that democrats should be running scared. do i think that it is important that former president obama is...
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has there been a new idea in obama world in the past three or four years. i have trouble, frankly, thinking of that thing. but they have to unveil something to-- and you know the economist, the cover is-- of the coming issue is one little question, mr. obama what do you want to do. and that is the question. >> well, they're saying they had a conference call today with reporters and they are saying we will talk about the second term so i guess we'll find out. >> better have something pretty specific i think. >> we are specifically glad that the two of you made it safely back to washington. we know you are heading to charlotte with all of us for next week. david brooks, mark shields, thank you. >> woodruff: and a postscript-- we have a week's worth of highlights from the republican national convention online, including all of mitt romney's acceptance remarks and other speeches. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: fresh off his convention, republican presidential nominee mitt romney flew to louisiana to survey the hurricane damage. president ob
has there been a new idea in obama world in the past three or four years. i have trouble, frankly, thinking of that thing. but they have to unveil something to-- and you know the economist, the cover is-- of the coming issue is one little question, mr. obama what do you want to do. and that is the question. >> well, they're saying they had a conference call today with reporters and they are saying we will talk about the second term so i guess we'll find out. >> better have something...
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people in obama world, including the president himself, think of his knoxx college speech from 2005 as a totemic expression of what he believes in in. so there wasn't a huge amount of what was new here. if you want to get a sense of what he believes should happen and has happened and is happening this is about as good a summation as you can get. >> rose: tell me what this president believe. >> he's deeply worried about inequality and he has been from the very beginning. when i interviewed him on a campaign plane in the midst of his bitter fight with hillary he said what i worry about is we have an economic expansion here that isn't reaching everyone. it's not sustainable and it's not helping everyone. that's before the crisis took hold and the middle class got hammered. his health care bill is an attacks on equality. he's raised taxeses on high-income people, but the fact is it hasn't really been enough to stem the tide. economic growth isn't that strong and inequality is still rising. some is because of larger forces. some because of choices he's made. some because of things republica
people in obama world, including the president himself, think of his knoxx college speech from 2005 as a totemic expression of what he believes in in. so there wasn't a huge amount of what was new here. if you want to get a sense of what he believes should happen and has happened and is happening this is about as good a summation as you can get. >> rose: tell me what this president believe. >> he's deeply worried about inequality and he has been from the very beginning. when i...
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president obama and putin are among the world leaders who addressed the united nations today ahead of a highly anticipated meeting. we're there covering every angle. >> i'm here in new york and we'll get the view from a top white house official on negotiating with russia. >> but the common ground is we do see extremism and that can be the basis for trying to come together and reach an agreement we haven't been able to in past years. >> and scientists announced there seems to be flowing water on mars, fueling speculation about whether there's also life on the red planet. >> welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. it was a jam-packed day at the united nations with the leaders of china, iran, the u.s. and russia all taking to the podium. among the key topics was with what to do about the situation in syria and that's a major issue of discussion at the meeting between presidents obama and putin tonight. laura is there in new york following it all and picks up our coverage. laura: jane, quite the day of diplomatic activity here at the united nations in
president obama and putin are among the world leaders who addressed the united nations today ahead of a highly anticipated meeting. we're there covering every angle. >> i'm here in new york and we'll get the view from a top white house official on negotiating with russia. >> but the common ground is we do see extremism and that can be the basis for trying to come together and reach an agreement we haven't been able to in past years. >> and scientists announced there seems to...
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and i think jeremiah wright above any of the people in those worlds inspires in obama the sense that it is possible to organize people and to motivate them and to get them to make a difference. and so i think he's a very important figure in obama's life and i think it really was painful for him to have to give that speech in philadelphia. but i think that speech -- >> painful? why was it painful? >> i think what it requires him to do is dissorbate himself publicly from a man who had a very profound influence on him. and you'll remember that he says, "i can no more disown jeremiah wright than i can disown my own grandmother." the point obama makes in that speech which is very powerful, i think, is those who are unwilling to acknowledge the possibility of change in american race relations are committing treason against american history. there has been dramatic change in american race religions, and obama knows that from his own life. what he thought wright was doing was denying that american whites would ever be anything other than racist, and that obama does not agree with, not surpri
and i think jeremiah wright above any of the people in those worlds inspires in obama the sense that it is possible to organize people and to motivate them and to get them to make a difference. and so i think he's a very important figure in obama's life and i think it really was painful for him to have to give that speech in philadelphia. but i think that speech -- >> painful? why was it painful? >> i think what it requires him to do is dissorbate himself publicly from a man who had...
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the obama world is focused on mitt romney as a potential threat. >> ifill: do they think mitt romney deciding to forego the hoopla of the straw poll-- he's still going to run in the caucuses-- did they have a sense about whether this was a good idea. >> this is where their expertise and how a republican- nominating electorate only goes so far. they are watching what we are all watching which is how bloody will this republican nomination fight get now. we identified this tier. talking to white house folks and the campaign folks at the obama election headquarters in chicago when they're eager to see a prolonged republican nomination fight they would like to see rick perry and michele bachmann battle it out in iowa and they would like to see them battle it out for a while. there's a cautionary note. the same people you'll remember from four years ago who said they benefited from a prolonged fight with hillary clinton and that nomination process not only did they benefit how to learn to be a better candidate in barack obama himself but they energize the electorate which helped them in no
the obama world is focused on mitt romney as a potential threat. >> ifill: do they think mitt romney deciding to forego the hoopla of the straw poll-- he's still going to run in the caucuses-- did they have a sense about whether this was a good idea. >> this is where their expertise and how a republican- nominating electorate only goes so far. they are watching what we are all watching which is how bloody will this republican nomination fight get now. we identified this tier....
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world than i think others have. >> charlie: who was kurt bardella. >> who is he? kurt was the former press secretary for darrell issa. very powerful republican congressman. kurt... >> charlie: with an instinct for investigations. >> yes. when i was reporting this book i asked kurt, look, i would like to maybe follow darrell issa around. that was a nonstarter. kurt was very compel to go me. he was this sort of a sandy glick type. he just was shameless in his self-promotion and dying to get attention. very, very transparent, very, very good at his job. darrell isssa was getting mostly good press in 2011. kurt let me follow him around. >> charlie: him or darrell? this is an emblematic sort of washington staffer. he has no college education. he sort of had his ticket to washington punched by hooking on to the campaign in 2008. he might as well have been a lottery ticket. he watched west wing growing up. he idolized jeb bartlett and ronald reagan. he basically said i'm not a democrat or a republican. >> maria: the character played by marten sheen. >> i'm an opportunist
world than i think others have. >> charlie: who was kurt bardella. >> who is he? kurt was the former press secretary for darrell issa. very powerful republican congressman. kurt... >> charlie: with an instinct for investigations. >> yes. when i was reporting this book i asked kurt, look, i would like to maybe follow darrell issa around. that was a nonstarter. kurt was very compel to go me. he was this sort of a sandy glick type. he just was shameless in his...
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welcome to bbc world news. coming up later, apologizing would basically say that the decision was the wrong decision. i do not believe it was the wrong decision. >> former president george bush releases his memoirs and discusses torture and tony blair. living in this village means dealing with life itself. -- means gambling with life itself. the u.s. president barack obama's is in indonesia in an effort to improve the u.s. reputation in that region. he returned to where he lived as a boy today. 17 months ago, mr. obama made a speech in cairo aimed at earnest and sustained rebuilding of understanding of muslims worldwide. today, he conceded that there is still a long way to go. >> the president is in indonesia. he canceled twice before. domestic politics kept him in the u.s. but, today, barack obama finally arrived in jakarta to launch a new partnership between the two countries. >> one of prosperity, expanding partnerships between our people, and political cooperation. these are the pillars of our new partnersh
welcome to bbc world news. coming up later, apologizing would basically say that the decision was the wrong decision. i do not believe it was the wrong decision. >> former president george bush releases his memoirs and discusses torture and tony blair. living in this village means dealing with life itself. -- means gambling with life itself. the u.s. president barack obama's is in indonesia in an effort to improve the u.s. reputation in that region. he returned to where he lived as a boy...
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some are old-time clinton handlers but a lot of people come from obama world and it's really an attempt by the clinton establishment to say, you knowá4 what? this is going to be a different campaign. first ;éú all, we'll have better relationships with the press. we'll see how that works. we'll bring in different voices, not the same since 1992, and we'll be a cohesive democratic party. the republicans, there will be a lot of fighting. >> yet in the newspaper today this afternoon they posted a story about disagreements break out among the fundraisers who had allied together to raise money for hillary clinton that's beginning to surface. >> and it shows how difficult it will be to bring all these disparate groups together and that's been the challenge of the super pacs because there are these groups looking to define candidate. >> ifill: not coordinating. not coordinating with, but having the message that supports the candidate. and that's early signs of dissension in the ranks. in terms of the folks she's brought around her, you've had some people criticize her for not bringing around
some are old-time clinton handlers but a lot of people come from obama world and it's really an attempt by the clinton establishment to say, you knowá4 what? this is going to be a different campaign. first ;éú all, we'll have better relationships with the press. we'll see how that works. we'll bring in different voices, not the same since 1992, and we'll be a cohesive democratic party. the republicans, there will be a lot of fighting. >> yet in the newspaper today this afternoon they...
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in terms of world view, he was much closer to barack obama than vladimir putin was. and during that period we got a lot of big things done. we eliminated 30% of the nuclear weapons allowed in the world between the united states and russia in 2010. we got the most comprehensive set of sanctions on iran ever in 2010 working with dmitry medvedev. we got a new supply route in afghanistan open through russia, flying soldiers through russia the first since world war ii that happened, that allowed us to not be dependent on pakistan as we were at the time that we joined the government. over 90% of our supplies back in 2005 went through pakistan. and that allowed us to bring the war against terrorists inside pakistan, including most directly and dramatically in 2011 when we killed osama bin lauden. when vladimir putin came back, there was no disagreement in the white house. i was still at the white house. but things were going to get difficult. i had written for years about putin and joined the white house. i don't think anybody would accuse me about being naive of vladimir p
in terms of world view, he was much closer to barack obama than vladimir putin was. and during that period we got a lot of big things done. we eliminated 30% of the nuclear weapons allowed in the world between the united states and russia in 2010. we got the most comprehensive set of sanctions on iran ever in 2010 working with dmitry medvedev. we got a new supply route in afghanistan open through russia, flying soldiers through russia the first since world war ii that happened, that allowed us...
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obama: now. the world has never been healthier, wealthier, and that are educated -- better educated. ,t has never been less violent more tolerant than it is today. reporter: it would be fair to say that many asian leaders are more comfortable with him than previous american presidents, but his pivot to asia came at a time of china's growing political and economic influence. the push and pull between the global superpowers may be what will shape the region for years to come. he has written about everything from ivy league card counters to the founding of facebook. turned his has sights higher. his book, the 37th parallel unidentified flying objects near the latitude. ofore we get to the content the book, i want to ask why you wrote it. you have written about facebook. i suppose there are parallel universes, but why ufos? to writever set out about ufos. i come from a science background and was a skeptic. i heard about chuck zukowski, a reserve share's deputy in colorado. he was fired from the depar
obama: now. the world has never been healthier, wealthier, and that are educated -- better educated. ,t has never been less violent more tolerant than it is today. reporter: it would be fair to say that many asian leaders are more comfortable with him than previous american presidents, but his pivot to asia came at a time of china's growing political and economic influence. the push and pull between the global superpowers may be what will shape the region for years to come. he has written about...